Jurgen Klinsmann Is The 10th-Highest-Paid Coach At The World Cup

When it comes to the salaries of the coaches at the World Cup, there is a huge disparity between the highest-paid and those at the bottom of the list.

Jurgen Klinsmann of the United States is the tenth highest-paid coach in the tournament, making $2.6 million per year according to data collected by the UK Daily Mail. But that pales in comparison to Fabio Capello, who is making $11.2 million leading the Russian team.

Here is the salary for every coach at the World Cup:

Fabio Capello, Russia — $11,235,210

Roy Hodgson, England — $5,874,570

Cesare Prandelli, Italy — $4,322,010

Luiz Felipe Scolari, Brazil — $3,973,730

Ottmar Hitzfeld, Switzerland — $3,745,130

Joachim Löw, Germany — $3,602,460

Vicente del Bosque, Spain — $3,386,270

Louis van Gaal, Netherlands — $2,738,060

Alberto Zaccheroni, Japan — $2,727,480

Jurgen Klinsmann, United States — $2,621,740

Didier Deschamps, France — $2,161,000

Paulo Bento, Portugal — $2,160,170

Carlos Queiroz, Iran — $2,098,060

Jorge Sampaoli, Chile — $1,774,960

Jose Pekerman, Colombia — $1,678,450

Ange Postecoglou, Australia — $1,395,300

Óscar Tabárez, Uruguay — $1,258,840

Sabri Lamouchi, Ivory Coast — $1,037,450

Vahid Halilhodžić, Algeria — $1,007,070

Marc Wilmots, Belgium — $864,400

Fernando Santos, Greece — $864,400

Alejandro Sabella, Argentina — $818,240

Hong Myung-bo, South Korea — $795,250

Luis Fernando Suárez, Honduras — $629,420

Reinaldo Rueda, Ecuador — $566,480

Jorge Luis Pinto, Costa Rica — $440,590

Volke Finke, Cameroon — $394,440

Stephen Keshi, Nigeria — $392,420

Safet Susic, Bosnia and Herzegovina — $352,470

Niko Kovac, Croatia — $271,740

James Kwesi Appiah, Ghana — $251,770

Miguel Herrera, Mexico — $209,810

Of course, salaries mean different things in different countries. Here is a look at how much each coach makes compared to the average salary in that country via SportingIntelligence.com.

While Russia's Fabio Capello is still near the top, making 763 times as much as the average Russian, that is actually second to Sabri Lamouchi, who makes 795 times as much as the average person in the Ivory Coast.